Help with questions for my paper please

[erena1289]

Hi everyone!! I'm currently an undergrad working my into the nursing field at my university and I was hoping that you fellow nurses can answer a couple of questions I have for a paper I am writing, if you can thank you so much!

1. How many hours, on average, do you work at a hospital?
   
2. How many nurses work with you on a rotation usually?
   
3. How many patients are you assigned to during your rotation?
   
4. How do you time manage your patients, but still try to give adequate time with each one?
   
5. Do you feel that you are over worked? If yes what is your stress level? 1-10 (1 being not at all 10 very stressed)
   
6. In your opinion, is your hospital well funded? (i.e. equipment, staff etc.). How do you believe funding can be better used in the hospitals?
   
7. How does the work environment contribute to your personal work ethic?
   
8. What do you believe contributes to the problems in a hospital, from your point of view as a nurse?
   
9. Anything else you would like to mention please feel free :)
   

again thank you so much for taking the time to do this, i really appreciate it

erena

[talaxandra]

1. 40 hours/week, which includes a paid day off every four weeks (five on nights)
   
2. Nine in total on day shifts, four or five on nights depending on acuity
   
3. We practice team nursing, which means I and a colleague have eight patients between us on days, usually allocated as having primary responsibility for four; up to eight on nights
   
4. Practice, the ability to prioritise, delegation and good luck
   
5. I usually feel adequately challenged and have fairly low work-related stress: maybe 3
   
6. I work in an Australian public hospital so our funding is federal. Ratios are legally mandated in my state so we never work short; skill mix is not mandated as strictly but unregulated workers are not allowed to perform patient care in acute areas so I only work with registered nurses (division 1, who are university educated for three years, or division 2, who are institute educated for 18 - 24 months). My current and previous unit managers have both believed that adequate equipment is essential for good care so we always have what we need to do the job, though the need for isolation and dedicated equipment sometimes eat up obs equipment.
   
7. I do not understand this question - please explain
   
8. I would like the return of set visiting hour to my hospital. I would like batches of graduates to enter the system further apart - we currently get an intake of three or four every month, which means the former group still need support and supervision. I think all managers having to work the job below them from time to time would give them a better understanding of why their theories and our practice do not always align. That said, I am overall very happy with my working environment and do not see any major issues (though, between sick leave and long service leave, I have been off for almost four months)
   
9. I can't think of anything else now but am sure that someone else will post something that makes me think "of course, and that"
   

[KM9165]

1. 36/week

2. 3 RNs total - I work night shift. 5 RNs on days

3. Up to 6 - On day shift 3, but if we're full 1 RN takes 4

4. Prioritize, plan ahead, on nights many patients sleep and I try to not interrupt them unless I must - coordinate timing with CNA. Usually I don't have the time issue unless we have high acuity, in that case TEAMWORK

5. Stress depends on acuity mainly. fairly low stress on nights = 3. Day shift is more stressful = 6

6. Seems to be

7. I have a strong work ethic and am committed to high quality, sensitive and efficient professional care. At times, i am frustrated when my co-workers do not show the same respect to patients and one another.

8. Communication. MDs don't always talk with nursing staff before seeing patients. It seems that RNs who become part of management easily forget what the reality is that we practicing RNs face. Overall, I think my hospital and team do a pretty good thing.

[RNKPCE]

1) 8-16 hours a week per diem

2) depends on number of patient on the unit. 4 patients a piece plus charge nurse, all shifts

3) 4

4) Prioritize during report. Don't wait to do later what you have time to do now, is my motto

5) No in general

6) Yes well funded

7) I feel it is called "work" for a reason. I am at odds with those that think it is okay to text, surf the net etc on company time. The hospital I work at has a policy but it is not well enforced.

8) Budget. Workers that are 'dead wood'. For yearly evaluations you either meet standards or don't meet them. So the "great employee" are rarely set apart from the average to slightly below average employees.